For The Century's End

Organised into five sections, this work features poems ranging from the mythic to the personal, as does the central, poem "In the House of Wax". Their journey incorporates both anguish over the state of the present-day world, and an abiding, forward-looking spiritual resolve. It taps into an ancient environmental wisdom that links us all.

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Poet and essayist John Haines has forged, in his long career, a body of work noted both for its austere lyric beauty, anchored in the solitude and spaciousness of his early years as a homesteader in the Alaskan wilderness, and for its penetrating responsiveness to the human condition. The generous selection of poems in For the Century’s End conveys, in form and substance, the singular and exhilarating power of Haines’s poetry of the past decade, underscoring his role as one of the major writers of our time.